This underground classic tells the story of oil-rich Azerbaijan's
first years of independence from Moscow. Goltz's vivid, personal
account, filled with memorable portraits of individuals in high
places and low, carries the reader from the battlefront to the
oilfield, the voting booth to the negotiating table, always with an
astute sense of how it all fits into the geopolitical firmament.
In its first years as an independent state, the former Soviet
republic of Azerbaijan was a prime example of post-Soviet chaos --
beset by coups and civil strife, and losing the Karabakh war of
secession, with a fifth of its territory occupied by Armenian
troops. Azerbaijan may be endowed with vast oil reserves, but it
also bestrides one of the greatest ethnic, religious, and political
faultlines in the world.
Thomas Goltz became an accidental witness to Azerbaijan's
inglorious history-in-the- making when he was detoured into Baku in
mid-1991 -- and decided to stay. This record of his years there
alternates in style between tragedy and farce. Throughout, the
intensity of immediate experience is balanced by an acute awareness
of contemporaneous events in Karabakh and Nakhjivan, Georgia and
Armenia, Russia and Chechnya, Iran and Turkey, Washington and
Houston.
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